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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1931
Page
8
Nelsonville and vicinity society items compiled by staff correspondent H Bartlett. Telephone service offered for society notices and local happenings. readers urged to send in items for inclusion in Your News column.
New York narcotics plan presented to the Wickersham Commission calls for a separate report to President Hoover. Judge Cornelius F. Collins led the New York Narcotic Survey Committee with Charles H. Tuttle and proposes 91 district committees of officials and welfare workers to combat narcotics as a serious social peril. He cites 40 percent of prisoners in NYC penal institutions as drug addicts and a seven percent annual rise in narcotics law violators.
Nelsonville March 5 A demonstration of Hocking Valley Brick Company products by ceramic engineer G R Robinson at the Nelsonville Board of Trade meeting showcased 260 sizes and shapes of clay products. The Halwood paving block is out of production. lighter Hocking Block comes in multiple sizes. four product families partition tile load bearing back-up and face tile. new stack tile sewer liners and silo block touted. silo block can build a 12 by 30 ft silo in six hours at The Diamond Ohio Fire Proofing plant.
Nelsonville March 5 The Melsonville Lodge of Elks announced a dance at the Elks Club Friday evening from 9 to 1 o'clock.
The West School P T A will observe Home Coming Day with a 2 P M Friday program. Dr A W Boetticher of Ohio University will speak and H F Fauber will discuss Health Habits. First and fifth grade acts include songs recitations and a playlet Spring Comes to Flowerland. A social hour with refreshments follows.
Nelsonville reports that on March 9 York Grange will present the three act comedy A Poor Married Man at Oak Grove hall. The play portrays views of married life through a college professor and his mother-in-law angle with a small admission fee and tickets sold by Mrs Monks Sunday School class of the Methodist Church.
Allen Stotts, a well known Nelsonville resident, died Sunday morning at his home near Downington. Funeral services were held in Downington on Tuesday, according to relatives.
Mary Marguerite Evans three day old daughter of Otto and Mary Evans was buried today in Haydenville Cemetery after short funeral services at their home near Haydenville at 4 PM.
Nelsonville High School hosts an alumni team from Nelsonville High to challenge the Greyhounds this Friday. The lineup includes Hari Hilleary Oscar Hartley Bernard Hawk Dean Long Atex Huffman Wilbur Snowden and other former stars. The girls game precedes at 7 30 with the boys following at 8 30.
Mr and Mrs Irvin Nanna of Nelsonville announce the marriage of their daughter Maye to Mr W R Churchill on January 3 1931 in Pittsburgh Pa Churchill is son of Austin Churchill of Highland NY and holds a key position with the Postal Telegraph Company.
The King's Men will meet at the home of Charles Ray on Adams Street Friday evening at seven o'clock.
Mies Lulu Poston of Athens visited Mrs. Harry Edington on Monday. Mrs. George Cooper was a business visitor in Columbus Thursday. Mrs. Clarence Wood and Pauline returned from a two week visit in Springfield. Mrs. R L Barron and daughter Margaret visited in Columbus Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Wendell attended the funeral of Allen Stotts in Downington Tuesday. Mrs. W L Powell spent Thursday with Mr. Powell at Grant Hospital in Columbus. Will Tedrow, recovering from appendicitis at Martins Ferry hospital, visits his mother Elizbeth Tedrow on West Franklin Street.
The Loyal Woman's Class met Tuesday evening at Mrs. Glanche' Juniper's home on West Washington Street. President Mrs. Starkey led the business session, Mrs. Adda James gave the devotional, a silver offering was collected, and 21 members enjoyed refreshments. Next gathering will be at Mrs. Allie Dilcher and Mrs. Josie Bauch on Fayette Street.
The Wednesday afternoon bride club met at the home of Mrs. C. J. Bartels with Mrs. C. E. Bennett as hostess. Guest players included Mrs. Ben Stalter, Mrs. C. E. Welch, Mrs. J. L. Wilson, and Mrs. John Edington. High score honors went to Mrs. Cecil Shafer, first. Mrs. Welch, second. and Mrs. W. G. Mechem, third.
Mizpah Methodist Sunday School class met Tuesday evening at Mrs. Maggie Craig's residence with Miss Ella Patton assisting. After the business session, a social hour followed and refreshments were served to 14 members and two guests.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Dean and Mrs. E. J. Cable of 62 East Columbus Street entertained at dinner Tuesday with guests including Mr. and Mrs. Orrin Thacker, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Johnson of Columbus, Mr. and Mrs. Will Rannells of New Plymouth, and the Rev. and Mrs. Lloyd Evans from this city.
Nelsonville reports that the Court of Honor meeting scheduled for this evening at the Y M C A has been postponed.
In Columbus on March 5 Senator D J Gunsett and Senator Earl Lewis publicly chastised colleagues for inattention to duty and failure to attend committee meetings. Gunsett noted none of four committee reports were signed in committee and were advanced without a quorum, defying Senate rules.
The troop meeting scheduled for Friday night at 6 30 is postponed due to the death of W. W. Whitlatch’s mother, announced by district commissioner.
New Delhi March 5 All-India Congress Working Committee issued orders for independence workers to observe the peace truce signed yesterday by Mahatma Gandhi and Lord Irwin. The committee endorsed the Gandhi Irwin agreement and directed congress committees to act immediately, suspending civil disobedience nationwide.
Detroit March 5 John KR Watkins former Federal District attorney who resigned announces support for amending the Volstead Act.
An advertisement urges waking your liver bile without calomel and warns against salts laxatives. It claims two pounds of bile daily must flow for digestion and mood, linking constipation to foul breath and blemishes, and promotes Carter's Little Liver Pills as a gentle vegetable remedy.
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